[Foundation-l] Accelerating chapter creation

[Erik Moeller]

On 9/26/06, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not always. If a wiki powered by MediaWiki lacks anonnotice, both
> unregistered users and registered get the same message put on
> [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]].
> My sketchy touch-n-go during the Election period suggested fourtyeight
> of fiftith (so presumably 95 or -6% of our all wikis) of our projects
> provide the same message both to anon and registered.

That's good to know.

> Another considerable thing is those meta-newcomers may need the
> description what the chapter is and is not. [[m:Wikimedia Japan]]
> seemed to be a horrible example what unknowledgeable & not involved
> editors can think out. An anon created this page and later registered
> him- or herself as "Wikimedian" (in kana). Until today, most sane and
> involved people of Japanese speaking projects seem to avoid being
> involved to that discussion.

Absolutely. I think we need to move much further along in the process
of defining both the role of the Foundation and its Chapters before
trying such an experiment.
-- 
Peace & Love,
Erik

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